In volume I, Kleinberg-Levin interprets and defines the five key
words in Heidegger's project. In this second volume, he makes use
of these words, illuminating their specific concrete meaning and
significance for Heidegger's phenomenology of perception and his
philosophy of history. At stake in Kleinberg-Levin's project,
coming after Heidegger, is the possibility of another experience
and understanding of being. Concentrating on the appropriation of
seeing and hearing as capacities and capabilities bearing promising
potentialities that could be developed, he shows how these modes of
perception should be understood in the context of Heidegger's
critique of the history of metaphysics, wherein vision has served
as paradigm for knowledge, truth, and reality. He also shows that
seeing and hearing need to be understood in the context of
Heidegger's philosophy of history, in which seeing and hearing are
both given a role in the transformation of the character of our
humanity, redeeming their own inherent potential. Kleinberg-Levin
shows how and why, in the world of today, the formation of the
perceptual Gestalt has undergone an accelerating process of
deformation and reification, encouraging a disposition for violence
that makes perception serve unrelenting technological and
technocratic imperatives; and he shows how we might begin to redeem
the promising potential in seeing and hearing, turning their
damaged and dehumanized character, and their violence, into ways of
taking part in the creation of a new planetary existence-what
Heidegger imagines through the topology of the fourfold, the
gathering of earth and sky, mortals and their gods, around all the
things we live with. Retrieving the latent potential in our seeing
and hearing for the sake of a better, more benevolent world,
another epoch in the history of being, Kleinberg-Levin proposes
important new ways to experience and think about the fundamental
disposition of these capacities and capabilities, emphasizing our
responsibility, not only for the beings that pass through our
world, but for being itself, namely, the opening of a perceptual
field, a universe of discourse, a world: the necessary conditions
for experiencing beings in regard to their being. This
responsibility, he argues, summons us to the response-abilities
befitting our true humanity. Thus, the subtitle for this volume:
"Learning to See, Learning to Hear." Concentrating on the
development of our natural capacities, Kleinberg-Levin explores the
question of our potential for growing in our humanity, growing in
our sense of what it means to be human. In this way, he connects
his thinking, after Heidegger, not only to the history of European
thought, but also to the philosophical contributions of Emerson and
Dewey, the best among the Americans to continue the Enlightenment
Project.
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